The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to reckon in figures the extent to which wealth is restricted indirectly, the extent to which energy is squandered, that might… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The prison population consists of heterogeneous elements; but, taking only those who are usually described as 'the criminals' proper, and of whom we have… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“It must have been law that developed in man the sense of just and unjust, right and wrong. Our readers may judge of this… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“And by that habit of submission, with which we are only too familiar, the thought of the next generation retains this religious twist, which… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past, it no longer recognizes a division… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“And yet were you to talk to such a martyr, to the woman who is about to be hanged, even just as she nears… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent?… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
